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Outbreak : foodborne illness and the struggle for food safety / Timothy D. Lytton.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Chicago scholarship onlinePublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2019Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226611716
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 363.19260973 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9000.9.U5 L988 2019
Online resources: This work provides an overview of the US food safety system. It focuses on microbial contamination of food during production. Detailed case studies illustrate how deadly foodborne illness outbreaks caused by infected milk, poison hamburgers, and tainted spinach have spurred scientific and technological advances in food safety. These case studies reveal that efforts to improve food safety through government regulation, industry supply chain management, civil litigation, and consumer advocacy are highly interdependent.
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Also issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This work provides an overview of the US food safety system. It focuses on microbial contamination of food during production. Detailed case studies illustrate how deadly foodborne illness outbreaks caused by infected milk, poison hamburgers, and tainted spinach have spurred scientific and technological advances in food safety. These case studies reveal that efforts to improve food safety through government regulation, industry supply chain management, civil litigation, and consumer advocacy are highly interdependent.

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